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ISACA student group @ CUE hosted an Invited Speaker from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner

On December 15, 2016 Mr. Nji Lionel Nji, CISSP, spoke with the members of ISACA student group about the issues related to Information and Privacy Protection on the provincial and national levels. As a graduate of MISSM program Mr. Nji also shared some insights of building successful career in the industry.

The talk was organized by ISACA student group @ CUE as part of the on-going Industrial Mentorship program.

MISSM student – Victor Ajala, CCNA, CCAI – received Vivek Dharap scholarship from ISACA Edmonton Chapter. To get the scholarhip Vitor had to pass an exam for the newly established ISACA Cybersecurity Fundamental certificate.

Congratulations Victor!

2nd Annual research poster presentations – April 2016

With the great support from Graduate Student Association, IEEE student chapter and ISACA student chapter the department of Information Systems Security and Assurance Management organised a poster presentation for gradating students to present their research as posters on April 11 2016. Students from different streams of graduate programs at the university participated in the event.

MISSM student Monika Choudhary won CSX Scholarship with free admission to the second day of ISACA’s CSX North America Conference as well as free ISACA student membership for one year.

Congratulations, Monika!

Research poster presentations – April 2015

On April 10th 2015 the Department of Information Security and Assurance Management along with MISSM/MISAM Student Association held their first annual research poster presentation.

Students who are completing the research phase of their Masters studies presented the outcomes of the projects to fellow students, faculty and alumni.

The event gave everybody a good opportunity to share research ideas and socialize with the graduates. The department and the association are planning to establish poster presentations as an annual event.

The following projects have been presented at the event:

Student

Project title

Research advisers

Himanshu Vats

A Study of Fingerprint Security for Payment Cards

Ron Ruhl and Shaun Aghili

Muhammad Parvez

An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Black-Box Web Application Scanners in Detection of Stored SQL Injection and Stored XSS Vulnerabilities

Pavol Zavarsky and Nidal Khouri

Eric Mongare

A Study of Security Content Automation Protocol for Compliance and Reporting

Pavol Zavarsky and Francis Gichohi

Ronak Bhatt

Implementation and Study of Efficiency of Honeyword Generation Algorithms

International Agreements 2014

In January of 2014 the Vice-President International, Dr. Manfred Zeuch at Concordia University of Edmonton and the Vice-Rector, Dr. Roman Yakoviev at Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia signed a phase-one agreement for the Master of Information Systems Assurance Management (MISAM) program at Concordia. Students at Altai State University will be able to take the first half of the program at Altai State and then the second half at Concordia. When completed graduates will receive the Master of Information Systems Assurance Management from Concordia University of Edmonton.

We look forward to this cooperation and are excited about this first phase and future phases of cooperation. Concordia expects to receive students by approximately 2015.

In March of 2014 Concordia signed a similar agreement with the American University of Nigeria for the Master of Information Systems Security Management (MISSM) program (see the AUN here). Students will take year one of the MISSM program and complete the program at Concordia.

April 2014

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) made significant changes to regulations for international students working in Canada. In this announcement CIC stated “Study permits will automatically authorize the holder to work off-campus for up to 20 hours per week during the academic session and full-time during scheduled breaks without the need to apply for a separate work permit.” For more information on this change to international student study permits and work permits see this CIC Link.